Body Inserted Urinary Or Colonic Incontinent Device Or Treatment (e.g., Artificial Sphincters, Etc.) Patents (Class 600/29)
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Patent number: 9980746Abstract: A medical assembly and method for the delivery of an implant inside a patient's body. The medical assembly includes an implant, a tubular member, and a delivery device. The tubular member includes a proximal portion defining a first locking feature. The delivery device includes a needle having a proximal portion and a handle having a proximal portion and a distal portion coupled to the proximal portion of the needle. The distal portion of the handle also includes a locking member that defines an opening, the opening being configured to allow at least a portion of the tubular member to pass through the locking member when the locking member is in an unlocked configuration and the locking member configured to engage the first locking feature of the tubular member to prevent the tubular member from being removed from the locking member when the locking member is in a locked configuration.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Peter J. Pereira, Sharmad S. Joshi
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Patent number: 9955957Abstract: A tissue displacing and fastening device is provided for manipulating and fastening tissue together. The device includes a tissue displacing elements, which displaces tissue. A fold is formed from the displaced tissue and the tissue is fastened together to secure the fold.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2013Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: EndoGastric Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Richard Romley
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Patent number: 9956286Abstract: Various embodiments of bulking or cushioning agents or material and related medical devices and methods are disclosed. For example, a method of performing a medical procedure in a tract of a body may include injecting a material in a liquid phase proximate a target site between a first tissue layer and a second tissue layer, allowing the material to transition from the liquid phase to the gel phase in response to a raise in temperature of the material to approximately at or above the predetermined temperature, and performing a surgical procedure on the target site. The material may have the liquid phase at temperatures below a predetermined temperature and a gel phase at temperatures approximately at or above the predetermined temperature.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Paul Scopton, Samuel Zhong, Yem Chin
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Patent number: 9931439Abstract: Described are medical graft materials and devices which can be usefully modified with liquid additives such as cell suspensions, bioactive agents, or combinations of these. The medical graft materials and devices can have a first outer surface and a second outer surface and can define an internal chamber between the first outer surface and the second outer surface. The medical graft materials and devices can also have at least one region of the graft material interrupting the chamber and surrounded by the chamber. Also described are methods for making and using these medical graft materials and devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2013Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignees: Cook Biotech Incorporated, Muffin IncorporatedInventors: Neal E. Fearnot, Michael C. Hiles, Jeremy Metz, F. Joseph Obermiller, Andrew J. Kaucher, Steven Charlebois
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Patent number: 9918819Abstract: Various embodiments of sling or implant systems are provided. The sling or implant systems can be employed to treat incontinence, prolapse, and like conditions. A needle delivery device can be included, wherein the delivery device includes a needle and a rotatable sheath. The rotatable sheath can rotate upon actuation relative to the needle to selectively deploy or disengage an implant anchor from the distal end of the needle.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventor: Brian G Fischer
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Patent number: 9877834Abstract: A medical implant system for implantation in a patient to treat erectile dysfunction includes a first fluid path, an inflatable penile prosthesis cylinder, an electric pump, and implant controller, and an implantable power supply. The inflatable penile prosthesis cylinder is in fluid communication with the first fluid path and is configured for implantation in a corpus cavernosum of a patient. The electric pump is in fluid communication with the first fluid path. The implant controller is electrically coupled to the pump and is configured to activate the pump to drive a flow of fluid through the first fluid path and into the cylinder. The implantable power supply provides electrical power to the pump.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Shay Moshe Vaingast, Charles C. Kuyava
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Patent number: 9867619Abstract: An anvil assembly delivery system includes an anvil assembly having a center rod and an anvil head assembly pivotally secured to the center rod a flexible tube having a first end configured for oral insertion into a patient and a second end engaged with the anvil assembly, and a retrieval suture connected to the head assembly positioned to extend from the anvil assembly in a direction opposite to the flexible tube. The anvil assembly delivery system also includes a spacer suture tube positioned adjacent the anvil head assembly and defining a suture channel, which is supported on the retrieval suture and is dimensioned to prevent the retrieval suture from becoming trapped in the staple line of a stapling device. In an embodiment, the spacer is a suture tube defining a suture channel which receives the retrieval suture.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Covidien LPInventor: Justin Williams
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Patent number: 9848970Abstract: Embodiments of elongate pelvic implants and methods for treating pelvic conditions, such as incontinence, are provided. The implants can include a tissue support portion, one or more extension portions and one or more anchors. The implant is constructed as a unitary sling implant. The implant can be constructed or formed in a generally elongate shape to provide a lattice support structure of repeated cells.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: James R. Mujwid, Jessica L. Roll, Karl A. Jagger, Robert C. Grant
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Patent number: 9833234Abstract: A tissue fixation device includes an elongated body extending between a distal portion including a barbed loop, and a proximal portion including a blunt tip. The elongated body, proximal portion, and distal portion are provided in a variety of configurations depending upon the performance requirements desired of the tissue fixation device for the envisaged application of use.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2013Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Daniel Broom, Joshua Stopek, Timothy Sargeant, Nicholas Maiorino, Arpan Desai, Saumya Banerjee, Timothy Flavin
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Patent number: 9820836Abstract: An intra-vaginal device for controlling urinary incontinence, designed to be placed longitudinally in the vagina, includes: a. a deformable distal portion, placed in the subvesical region of the vagina, characterized by a deformable state and an un-deformable state; b. a deformable proximal portion placed in the sub-urethral portion of the vagina, characterized by a deformable state and an un-deformable state; c. a deformation controlling mechanism interconnecting said distal portion and said proximal portion, adapted to reversibly transform said distal portion and said proximal portion form said deformable state to said un-deformable state; and from said un-deformable state to said deformable state; wherein upon predetermined amount of intra-vaginal pressure applied on said proximal pressure, said deformation controlling mechanism is adapted to transform proximal portion from said un-deformable state to said deformable state such that pressure is applied on said urethra.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: GYNAMICS WOMEN'S HEALTH LTD.Inventors: Eyal Bercovich, Ronen Raveh
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Patent number: 9814555Abstract: In an embodiment, the invention discloses a medical device configured to be delivered and placed within a patient's body. The medical device includes an implant and a cover member. The implant is configured to be disposed within the patient's body. The implant includes a support member, a first arm member and a second arm member, an elongated first sleeve, and an elongated second sleeve. The support member includes a crescent shaped opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Sandra Nagale, Mark W. Boden, John Wesley Sheets, Jr., James M. Goddard
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Patent number: 9814630Abstract: Generally, a vaginal insert device used to treat urinary incontinence is disclosed. The vaginal insert device includes a support portion, a stabilizing portion, a removal device, and at least one fluid passageway extending though the support portion. The substantially cylindrical support portion has a distal end and a proximal end. In addition, the support portion has a plurality of foldable areas extending from the distal end to the proximal end. Desirably, the plurality of foldable areas helically curve as the plurality of foldable areas extend from the distal end to the proximal end. The largest outer circumference of the support portion has an insertion diameter when the plurality of foldable areas are compressed and foldable inward and an in-use diameter wherein the plurality of foldable areas are extended outward into a maximum in-use diameter position. Desirably, the in-use diameter is larger than the insertion diameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Kimberly Louise Ellefson, Jason Robert Boon, Garry Roland Woltman, MaryAnn Zunker, Patricia Ann Samolinski, Walter George Bauer, Vivian Kate Barad, Nicole Sarah Kahn, Gina Lynn Romero, Elger Oberwelz, James Rolfe Yurchenco, Jonah Lawrence Houston, Tiffany Heather Card, Martin Schnitzer
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Patent number: 9737388Abstract: Described are various embodiments of surgical procedures, systems, implants, devices, tools, and methods, useful for treating pelvic conditions in a male or female, the pelvic conditions including incontinence (various forms such as fecal incontinence, stress urinary incontinence, urge incontinence, mixed incontinence, etc.), vaginal prolapse (including various forms such as enterocele, cystocele, rectocele, apical or vault prolapse, uterine descent, etc.), and other conditions caused by muscle and ligament weakness, the devices and tools including devices and tools for anchoring an implant to supportive tissue and adjusting the implant.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Inventors: Chaouki A. Khamis, Jessica L. Roll, Shiva P. Moosai
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Patent number: 9717582Abstract: Various embodiments of an adjustable pessary device are provided. The device can include an elastic ribbon or band, such as Nitinol, encapsulated in a soft or flexible structure, such as a rubber shell. In addition to providing a conforming, comfortable shape, the rubber layer can have additional structures to interface and fit with the anatomical structures within the vagina.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Inventors: Benjamin Y. Arcand, Justin H. Huelman, Janet L. DeMarchi
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Patent number: 9713517Abstract: A method of placing an implant indwelling in a living body is disclosed. The method can include forming an insertion hole in the living body, the insertion hole extending from a living body surface and passing an obturator foramen on one side and an obturator foramen on the other side, the insertion hole having its end portion on the one side opened in the living body surface and its end portion on the other side closed in relation to the living body surface; inserting a medical tube that permits the implant to be inserted into the medical tube, prior to insertion of the implant; inserting the implant into the medical tube inserted in the insertion hole; and pulling the medical tube out of the insertion hole so that the implant is placed indwelling in the living body.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2014Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masakatsu Kawaura, Nao Yokoi
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Patent number: 9700489Abstract: A feeding tube assembly having an improved feeding tube body composed of a tube wall having an external tube surface and an internal tube surface, a proximal end, a distal end separated from the proximal end by a length, and a distal tip region. The internal tube surface defines a feeding passageway extending the proximal end to the distal tip region. The tube body has a first cross-sectional profile from the proximal end to the distal end and at least a second cross-sectional profile from the distal end to the distal tip region. In the first cross-sectional profile, the external tube surface defines an external circumference and the internal tube surface defines a generally non-circular internal perimeter dividing the tube wall into one thin-walled portions and thick-walled portions. In the second cross-section profile, the external tube surface defines an external circumference and the internal tube surface defines an internal circumference.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Avent, Inc.Inventors: Michael A. Kenowski, Katherine L. Dziak, Donald J. McMichael, John A. Rotella
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Patent number: 9693801Abstract: An implant and needle delivery system including a needle selectively releasable from a handle assembly is provided. The needle is selectively connectable with an elongate sling and the needle is selectively releasable from the handle assembly an implantation procedure to treat a pelvic disorder or condition, such as incontinence.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Inventor: John J. Allen
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Patent number: 9675285Abstract: In general, this disclosure describes techniques for placing a capsule for sensing one or more parameters of a patient. In particular, the techniques provide for anchoring of the capsule to a tissue at a specific site and releasing the capsule from the device using a single actuator. As an example, a delivery device may anchor the capsule to the tissue site during a first motion of the actuator and release the capsule from the delivery device during a second motion of the actuator. This allows a user to place the capsule by interacting with only a single actuator, thus making delivery of the capsule easier and more reliable.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2007Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: GIVEN IMAGING LTD.Inventor: Steven C. Christian
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Patent number: 9662117Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a flow of fluid and/or other bodily matter in a lumen formed by a tissue wall of a patient's organ comprises an implantable constriction device for gently constricting (i.e. without substantially hampering the blood circulation in the tissue wall) at least one portion of the tissue wall to influence the flow in the lumen, and a stimulation device for stimulating the wall portion of the tissue wall. A control device controls the stimulation device to stimulate the wall portion, as the constriction device constricts the wall portion, to cause contraction of the wall portion constricted by the constriction device to further influence the flow in the lumen. The apparatus can be used for restricting or stopping the flow in the lumen, or for actively moving the fluid in the lumen, with a low risk of injuring the organ.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2010Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Inventor: Peter Forsell
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Patent number: 9655708Abstract: In a general aspect, a method of treating urinary incontinence can include slidably interfitting a first push tube into a first dilator tube disposed at an end of a sling assembly and slidably interfitting the first push tube onto an end of a shaft of a delivery device. The method can also include inserting the shaft transvaginally through a vaginal wall and removing the shaft to implant a portion of the sling assembly in periurethral tissue. The method can also include slidably interfitting a second push tube into a second dilator tube disposed at a second end of the sling assembly and slidably interfitting the second push tube onto the end of the shaft. The method can still further include inserting the shaft transvaginally through the vaginal wall and removing the shaft from the patient to implant a second portion of the sling assembly in periurethral tissue.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventor: Michael S. H. Chu
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Patent number: 9642636Abstract: An expansion instrument includes an elongated vaginal-insertion member insertable into the vaginal lumen which is adjacent the urethral lumen with biological tissue interposed between the two, an elongated urethral-insertion member insertable into the urethral lumen, an interlock device interlocking the vaginal-insertion member and the urethral-insertion member to allow the insertion members to be brought closer together and brought farther apart, and a vaginal-side restriction that restricts the positional relationship, with respect to the biological tissue, of the vaginal-insertion member after being inserted into the vaginal lumen.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigeki Ariura, Masakatsu Kawaura
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Patent number: 9603593Abstract: Disclosed is a needle handling device engageable to an introducer tool used for implantation of a penile prosthetic insert in a corpora cavernosum of a penis. The needle handling device includes an attachment section, a needle capturing section and an intermediate section. The attachment section is provided at a first end of the needle handling device and is releasably attached to the introducer tool. The needle capturing section is provided at a second end of the needle handling device and is configured to capture and extract a needle out of the introducer tool. The intermediate section connects the first and the second end of the needle handling device. A method of implanting a penile prosthetic insert in a corpora cavernosum of a penis using a needle handling device is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Coloplast A/SInventor: Daniel Nygaard
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Patent number: 9549802Abstract: A device is provided for applying pressure on a vaginal wall of a female subject, said device being configured for insertion into a vaginal cavity of said female subject. The device includes a first deformable element, a second deformable element and a transmission element. The first deformable element has a resting-state and at least one deformed state and is configured for undergoing deformation in response to an inner body pressure. When in the resting state, the first deformable element is configured to anchor the device inside the vaginal cavity. The second deformable element has a resting-state and at least one deformed state, and is configured for undergoing deformation to apply a second pressure on the vaginal wall, such second pressure being operable to narrow a urethral portion the female subject.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2011Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: GYNAMICS WOMEN'S HEALTH LTD.Inventors: Eyal Bercovich, Ronen Raveh
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Patent number: 9510924Abstract: An apparatus (60) for use within a woman's urethra (9) for inhibiting urine outflow when her intra-abdominal pressure rises. The apparatus (60) includes a generally tubular device (50) having a proximal end and a distal end and defining a longitudinal axis. Device (50) comprises structure (5) that is constructed and arranged to define a longitudinal passageway (14) that extends entirely through the device (50) from the proximal end to the distal end. Structure (5) is further constructed and arranged to be altered via an increase in intra-abdominal pressure, from a first state in which the passageway (14) is open along its length and able to conduct urine to a second state in which the passageway (14a) is more restricted or is closed off, to inhibit the passage of urine.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Floelle Inc.Inventors: Jerrold M. Shapiro, Cheri A. Grantham
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Patent number: 9498195Abstract: An implant for use in a human or animal body can include a flexible housing with an outer wall and having a chamber therein. The implant can have at least one high vapor pressure medium within the chamber. The at least one high vapor pressure medium can have a combined vapor pressure equal to or greater than about the average value of the hydrostatic pressure of the implantation site plus the skin tension of the housing minus the gas tension of the dissolved gasses present at the implantation site.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: AttenueX Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ernest G. Schutt, Kevin G. Connors, John Gillespie, Jr., Peter Dayton
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Patent number: 9439748Abstract: A pessary device having a top, a base, a length, a longitudinal axis, and a hollow interior. The pessary device has a hollow interior containing a protuberance.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2012Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Evan Joseph Durling, Robert Clark Avery, Jr., Kevin Charles Strong, Hinrich Knuth, Daniel Raymond Wiegele
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Patent number: 9439747Abstract: The present invention discloses a medical assembly and method to deliver and place a bodily implant inside a patient's body. The medical assembly includes an insertion tool such that a portion of the insertion tool defines a lumen. The medical assembly further includes a carrier configured to be coupled to the insertion tool and including a passageway. The medical assembly also includes a flexible elongate member configured to pass through the passageway of the carrier and the lumen. The elongate member is also configured to be coupled to the bodily implant such that a portion of the elongate member between the bodily implant and the carrier defines a length.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Mark Danna, Kristina Yim Jenkins
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Patent number: 9402615Abstract: In one embodiment, an implant includes a support member configured to be placed within a body of a patient and provide support to a portion of the body of the patient, a tether coupled to an end portion of the support member; and an anchor configured to be disposed within a tissue of the body of the patient to help retain the implant in place within the body of the patient. The tether is coupled to the anchor such that the tether may move with respect to the anchor in a first direction but is retrained from moving in a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2011Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Isaac Ostrovsky, Jozef Slanda, Jamie Li
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Patent number: 9398984Abstract: An applicator for urinary incontinence devices has an insertion barrel, a deployment plunger, and an adjustable insertion depth indicator. The applicators are useful to correct for a consumer's body mass index to ensure that urinary incontinence devices are placed in the appropriate position to be effective.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2008Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: First Quality Hygienie, Inc.Inventors: Mari Hou, Raymond J. Hull, Jr., Paul B. Swick
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Patent number: 9393090Abstract: A non-expandable pessary device, the pessary device having a top, a base, a sidewall that extends between the top and the base, a length measured from the top to the base, a longitudinal axis, a maximum diameter, and a minimum diameter that is less than the maximum diameter, the sidewall, top and base forming an enclosed outer periphery defining a total area of the device. The pessary device has radial symmetry about the longitudinal axis and has a pressure region adapted to extend between an anterior vaginal wall and a posterior vaginal wall of a user to provide pressure on the user's urethra through the anterior vaginal wall.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Nancy Karapasha
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Patent number: 9307991Abstract: Described are methods and devices relating to anastomosis procedures, including those that reconnect the urethra and bladder after a radical prostatectomy, wherein the devices incorporate tissue approximating structure to maintain contact between tissues for healing the tissues together.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2004Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: AMS Research, LLCInventors: Vincent G. Copa, Kory P. Hamel
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Patent number: 9283064Abstract: Described are implants, tools, and related methods, for use in pelvic surgery to treat conditions such as prolapse, including embodiments of methods that involve a tissue path above the arcus tendineus.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: AMS Research CorporationInventors: Guillermo H. Davila, James E. Cox, Kimberly A. Anderson
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Patent number: 9277982Abstract: A disposable urinary incontinence device comprises a liquid-stable resilient member, and a cover sheet that envelops the liquid-stable resilient member to form an elongated member having a tubular profile. The elongated member has a first end, a second end, a first fold region disposed between the first end and the second end, a second fold region disposed between the first end and the first fold region, a third fold region disposed between the second end and the first fold region, a first portion located between the first end and the second fold region, a second portion located between the second end and the third fold region, a third portion located between the first fold region and a second fold region, and a fourth portion located between the first fold region and the third fold region to form a W-shaped incontinence device.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: MaryAnn Zunker, Sarah Anne Lemke, Particia Ann Samolinski, Sarah Anne Olson
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Patent number: 9248035Abstract: A flared vaginal stent having a body portion and an outwardly flared head portion as well as a method of use thereof is presented. The head portion is comprised of an outwardly flared tip, optionally containing a groove to accommodate the cervix, to flatten out the proximal vagina. Anterior surface of the head portion is flat while opposing posterior surface of the head portion is curved. The stent mimics the shape of the human vagina and displays the front and back surfaces of the vagina to facilitate placement and attachment of a graft to the full length of the anterior and posterior walls of the vagina. The flat surface allows suture placement for on the full length of the vagina for attachment of the graft anteriorly. The curved posterior surface highlights the posterior surface of the vagina to aid suture placement on the posterior (underside) of the vagina.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA, Casella & Nemcik Enterprises, Inc., Florida Health Science Center, Inc.Inventors: Lennox Hoyte, Michael J. Casella, Sr., Karen Bradford
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Patent number: 9186234Abstract: The invention is directed toward an apparatus for promoting urorectal organ emptying and related method. The apparatus has a funnel that circumscribes a woman's urethral opening and directs urine to pass therethrough and generally away from the woman. A lift portion is attached to the funnel, and is sized to be insertable into the woman's vaginal cavity and displace a prolapsed organ. In the case of prolapsed urinary bladder, the lift portion is shaped to engage the woman's anterior vaginal wall and displace a prolapsed urinary bladder and promote urinal emptying.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2013Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Inventor: Terell Reglin
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Patent number: 9162847Abstract: Wire used for beading is coiled on a rotably mounted reel in a dispenser having a reel brake bearing against the reel with the wire passing through a channel as extended to the exterior of the dispenser with the wire frictionally engaging both the walls of the channel and a resilient element pressing against the wire to modulate the force required to withdraw the wire from the dispenser to a value which is high enough to prevent spontaneous unwinding of the wire from around the reel but still allowing easy removal from the dispenser when desired.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: DPG USA INC.Inventor: Nikhil Gupta
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Patent number: 9151367Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an actuator element for a motor vehicle cover. The actuator element includes a plunger, which is axially guided on a guide. A slotted link guide with a sliding element and a control surface for guiding the sliding element, positively couple the plunger and the guide. A spring element, elastically couple the plunger and the guide in axial and rotational direction. The control surface includes a first loading section for rotating the plunger as a consequence of an axial movement in closing direction subject to axial and rotational loading of the spring element.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2014Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Markus Frommann, Heiko Betzen
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Patent number: 9131928Abstract: Coronary sinus ring apparatus, including an elongated body for deployment in a coronary sinus, an aperture in a long side of the body, at least a partial lumen extending from one end of the elongated body to at least the aperture, and a guide within the elongated body positioned and shaped to guide an element inserted along the lumen to the aperture. Apparatus for treating a heart, including a delivery tube sized for and adapted for insertion into a body, a sharp tip adapted to be pushed through cardiac muscle, an elongate tensioning element, and a foldable anchor adapted to couple the elongate tension element to cardiac muscle tissue, wherein the delivery tube encloses one or both of the elongate tensioning element and the foldable anchor. Related apparatus is also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2009Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Mor Research Applications Ltd.Inventors: Amnon Zlotnick, Henry M. Israel, Boaz Harari
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Patent number: 9095407Abstract: An incontinence treatment device includes a band attached to a pendant. The band is implantable around a portion of a urethra and has a first magnet connected to a first end portion of the band and a second magnet connected to a second end portion of the band. The pendant is connected to and extends from the band. The pendant has a shape that configures the pendant to be implantable into a scrotum and a thickness that configures the pendant to be implantable into a labia. The pendant encloses a switch and a power source that are electrically coupled to the first magnet and the second magnet. The switch has an on position to constrict the band around the urethra and an off position in which substantially zero current is provided to decouple the first magnet from the second magnet.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Coloplast A/SInventors: Christopher Deegan, Steven McClurg, Mark A. Moschel, Tyler Winsky
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Patent number: 9060839Abstract: Described are implants, tools, and related methods, for use in pelvic surgery to treat conditions such as prolapse, including embodiments of methods that involve a tissue path above the arcus tendineus.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2013Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: AMS Research CorporationInventors: Guillermo H. Davila, James E. Cox, Kimberly A. Anderson
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Patent number: 9060837Abstract: Embodiments of elongate pelvic implants and methods for treating pelvic conditions, such as incontinence, are provided. The implants can include a tissue support portion, one or more extension portions and one or more anchors. The implant is constructed as a unitary sling implant. The implant can be constructed or formed in a generally elongate shape to provide a lattice support structure of repeated cells.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2010Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: AMS Research CorporationInventors: James R. Mujwid, Jessica L. Roll, Karl A. Jagger, Robert C. Grant
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Patent number: 9061121Abstract: Provided are devices, systems, and methods for targeted administration of therapeutic agents to a subject. For example, provided are devices, systems, and methods for targeting the administration of peri-urethral bulking agents.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2010Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Emory UniversityInventors: Niall Galloway, James Galloway, Patrick McHugh, Brian Collins
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Patent number: 9039596Abstract: A surgical fastener for use in surgical procedures comprises a first member, a second member, and an anchor. Surgical materials may be secured within the surgical fastener. Methods of securing the surgical fastener to an anatomical structure are disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventor: Ghaleb Sater
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Publication number: 20150141742Abstract: Applicator for injecting a bulking agent at one or more selected submucosal positions in a periurethral tissue of a female patients' urethra. The applicator comprises a lance, such as a cystoscope with a distal end provided with one or more optical sensors, and a needle guide with a bore receiving the lance. The needle guide comprises needle channels at different angular positions, each needle channel extending between a needle entrance surface and an opposite shoulder surface. The needle channels are oriented to direct a needle via external peripheral tissue of the urethral meatus to a submucosal position at a urethra section, e.g., within the optical scope of the optical sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Jan Albert De Vries, Robert Jan Mrugas
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Publication number: 20150141743Abstract: A method of treating urinary incontinence in a person includes fabricating a device having a rod connected between a proximal portion that is insertable into a urinary bladder and a distal portion that is circular in lateral cross-section, and inserting the proximal portion into the urinary bladder and the rod in a urethra extending away from the urinary bladder. The method includes instructing the person to pass urine by pushing the distal portion in a proximal direction inward, thus lifting the proximal portion out of engagement with an exit region of the urinary bladder, and allowing the flow of urine to exit the urinary bladder through the urethra.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2015Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Sarah J. Deitch, Janell Colley, Julie M. Kerkvliet, Gregg Ledin
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Publication number: 20150133725Abstract: An apparatus for treating urinary incontinence, comprising: a node; a support section adapted for providing urethral support attached to the node; and, an anchoring section adapted for resisting movement of the apparatus attached to the node opposite the support section. Optionally, the support section is adapted to treat incontinence according to at least one of: SUTFS, colpo-elevation or colpo-distension.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2014Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: Elan Ziv, Jacob Gilan, Nir Sinai, Idan Bauder, Michal Tune, Eliahu Eliachar, Alex Grinberg, Roni Shabat
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Publication number: 20150133724Abstract: Provided is a perineal probe including a substantially cylindrical support rod in an insulating material, defining an axial direction and a circumferential direction, an end portion, constituting the inner end of said support rod, a grip for said perineal probe positioned on the support rod at the opposite end of said end portion, four electrodes positioned on the outer surface of the support rod, wherein each electrode extends for a circumferential portion ranging from 60° to 180°, wherein the electrodes are two by two aligned in an axial direction and reciprocally distanced in a circumferential direction, are in addition two by two aligned in a circumferential direction and distanced in an axial direction, and wherein each electrode is connected to a different electric output.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2014Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: BEACMED S.R.L.Inventor: Pier Luigi BOZZARELLI
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Patent number: 9022919Abstract: A vaginal insert device including a support portion, a stabilizing portion, a removal device, and at least one fluid passageway extending though the support portion is disclosed. The vaginal insert relaxes in the vagina to deliver outward compression force against the bladder neck via the anterior vaginal wall to assist prevention of urinary stress incontinence. The substantially cylindrical support portion has a distal end, a proximal end, and a hollow interior section with a plurality of struts extending from the distal end to the proximal end. Desirably, the plurality of struts helically curve as the plurality of struts extend from the distal end to the proximal end. The largest circumference of the support portion has an insertion diameter when the plurality of struts are twisted together and an in-use diameter wherein the plurality of struts are extended outward into a convex position larger than the insertion diameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Kimberly Louise Ellefson, Jason Robert Boon, Garry Roland Woltman, MaryAnn Zunker, Patricia Ann Samolinski, Walter George Bauer, Vivian Kate Barad, Nicole Sarah Kahn, Gina Lynn Romero, Elger Oberwelz, James Rolfe Yurchenco, Jonah Lawrence Houston, Tiffany Heather Card, Martin Schnitzer
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Publication number: 20150112230Abstract: Methods and devices to diagnose and treat male urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction are provided. A multiple sensor-enabled catheter for rectal insertion in a male patient allows for the visualization and manipulation or positioning of the bladder. A multiple sensor-enabled catheter for rectal insertion in a male patient allows for the visualization and implementation of efficient and effective exercises to strengthen pelvic floor muscles.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventor: Ramon Jose Iglesias
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Publication number: 20150112231Abstract: Methods and devices to diagnose and treat fecal incontinence in females and males are provided. A multiple sensor-enabled catheter for positioning in a patient's rectum allows for the visualization and manipulation or positioning of an anatomical reference point(s) in the patient's body. A multiple sensor-enabled catheter for rectal insertion in a patient allows for the visualization and implementation of efficient and effective exercises to strengthen pelvic floor muscles.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventor: Ramon Jose Iglesias